Seriously, ask most engineers and they will tell you one perk of their job is that they don’t have to deal with people

Today is Monday, September 27, 2010 and it’s time once again for the Monday Link Review, your weekly roundup of the best science and engineering links from across the web.

As you know 2010 is Knovel’s 10th anniversary.  Ten years ago Knovel co-founders Chris Forbes, Sashe Gurke and the late Bill Woishnis had a vision for what would become Knovel: to create a product that would allow engineers to do research faster, and to be able to more easily integrate that into their work. Ten years and more than 600 customers later, Knovel employees and some friends gathered together in…

A strange thing happened to me the other day. My boss walked into my office (cough, cubicle, cough) and informed me that our area would be getting an intern. Since I was the smartest, handsomest, and most charming, I would have the pleasure of taking this young mind under my protective wing. (Truth be told I was the newest person there and as such, had the least amount of work…

Welcome to the last Monday Link Review of the summer of 2010. With the Autumnal Equinox set for Wednesday, we’re taking time out from enjoying the last few days of Summer to bring you this week’s Monday Link Review, your one stop shop for the best science and engineering links of the past week. First comes a story from the 2010 Earth Awards, where the winner was a photosynthetic foam…